passion

Our latest career coaching radio show talked about money and career. While I talked about salary negotiation, of course, I also covered 2 other ways that money impacts your career: A strong financial foundation helps you take risks, so good finance habits matter even to people not in finance; and Your career is often your [...]

I am so excited to be cited in Molly Cain's piece for Forbes.com as an executive woman with an interesting side passion: Fellow Forbes Contributor, CNBC Career Expert and founder of Six Figure Start, Caroline Ceniza-Levine spends her weekends immersed in comedy. You can even catch her some nights performing in shows with a group [...]

Our February 7 episode focused on love and career. I talked about: How do you find a job you love? How can you organize your day so you do more of what you enjoy? How do you negotiate for the project/ team/ role you really want? I also answered audience questions: From Jeanine: I am [...]

I recently spoke on a panel on “How to Advance At Every Stage in Your Career” generously hosted by Google for diversity professionals in advertising. Topics ranged from job search to career progression to mentorship and giving back, and at every turn, most of the advice centered around passion. How do you distinguish yourself from [...]

This post also appears in my Work In Progress blog for Forbes.com: This is a question that a reader actually submitted (thank you, Kenny!), and with no other information, my first reaction is that it is a two-part question: Part 1 – What gives you purpose? Part 2 – How do you build a career [...]

This post also appears in my Work In Progress blog for Forbes.com: Ok, you probably don’t want to hear that there is something else to do, when you’re stretched thin by your job and family obligations. But everyone I know who has been happily juggling work and family, including myself with husband, 2 daughters and [...]

This post also appeared on my Work In Progress blog for Forbes.com. For my husband's 40th birthday last month he ran a marathon in Mobile, AL. He’s got a goal to run a marathon in all 50 states. This takes up a lot of his time. He also has a demanding job – CTO for [...]

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. – Thomas Adams Passion is expensive. It takes your mental focus, your emotional energy, your physical stamina. Are you frittering yours away? Are you expending precious energy worrying about small details of things that really don't matter? Or are you doing the opposite: numbing [...]

Warning: the below links to an Eminem video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3bY5cS1Co A shout out to Adrian J. Cartwood and his very entertaining and thought-provoking blog (http://7million7years.com) for reminding me about 8 Mile, a gem of a movie. I watched it at the suggestion of Judith Searcy, my improv teacher at School For Film and Television, because she [...]

I had the pleasure of speaking with Brett Farmiloe, co-founder of the non-profit Pursue The Passion (http://www.pursuethepassion.com/interviews/). PTP was started by two 2006 grads, Brett Farmiloe and Zach Hubbell, who wanted to discover their passion and help others do the same. What resulted is an organization that creates short videos featuring people in different careers. Watch [...]